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Playersong (2024)

Single-channel video piece, 3’35
16:9 / SD digital file / color / stereo

“ Playersong is a video piece, a musical system that exists only through a visual process. Here, it's all about games. The medium's reproduction device, the video player, is used as an instrument. This instrumental playing - imitating the recorded image - questions the images produced by the « guntube » and their media nature. Like players in a video game, these men play with their collections of killing machines, mostly weapons of war. Disguised as an openly accessible spectacle, this game is not just staged, it's networked. “

Desktopsongs is a cycle of video pieces questioning our relationship with technology. Each work - inspired by desktop movie practice - is a musical system dependent on a visual process, tending towards an economy of the device. The cycle includes Screensong, questioning data privacy, Simonsong, questioning technological hegemony in the world of contemporary music, Playpausesong, questioning mass media consumption, Playersong, questioning the mediatization of weapons over the Internet, and Picklesong, questioning the idea of gesture in “expanded” music.